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   Jan Higgins wrote:

  Back in the 1970s my husband supplied English teabags to a French counterpart in exchange for wine, luckily supermarket shelves were never emptied.
  
  Back then the local shops were full of French day-trippers buying our goods, I am sure the majority of shops would welcome them now spending their euros.

  
  
  
  I was told that visitors went mad over Quality Street so the supermarkets would stick a pallet in the middle of the shop, take off the shrink wrapping and customers would grab tins from there. When there was a regular service to Ostend legs of lamb were sought after by Belgian seafarers.

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